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Rpruett on 16 January 2011
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Seece said:
Rpruett said:
Seece said:

They have no choice, their console is very casual unfriendly, and the casual stuff they have come up with has absoloutely bombed, wheras Microsoft's have flourished. So picking core games wasn't some love letter to it's userbase.

You better believe if they could be in Microsofts position right now with Kinect, and it's casual games, and all the money piling in, they'd switch in a second.


Honestly, pre-kinect what 'Casual stuff' has Microsoft had flourish?  Banjo Kazooie?  Lol.   Microsoft built it's userbase on quality shooters, first and third person which primarily attracts the typical 12-24 male.

Nothing, I'm not talking about pre kinect though I'm talking Kinect Vs. Move!

You have to be talking Pre-Kinect,  otherwise the Casual stuff bombed even harder on the 360 prior to Kinect.   Microsoft has the cheapest console on the market and released a casually friendly product with a lot of hype surrounding it.    Obviously it will sell well.

Contrast that to Sony with the most expensive console on the market released a more unforgiving, precise product with virtually no hype (Outside of existing owners). 

 

It has not a thing in the world do to how "Casual" friendly a console is.  As I pointed out, the 360 was probably the least casual friendly console before Kinect.

 

In my opinion,  Kinect can't do core titles very well this very same dynamic is why it's deemed for casuals.  This will be a big thing to watch once the hype dies down.  Nintendo still produced plenty of core titles with the Wii and I imagine that Sony will follow similar footsteps,  core titles as well as casual titles (Either tacked on,  or ground up casual).   I don't believe Microsoft will be able to.  They will divide their userbase and resources trying to appeal to both.